Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - Comparing covid 19 death rates - Countries and States
Thread: Comparing covid 19 death rates - Countries and States
View Single Post
 
Old 07-13-2020, 06:21 AM
Arctic Fox's Avatar
Arctic Fox Arctic Fox is offline
Soaring Eagle member
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 2,451
Thanks: 27
Thanked 1,362 Times in 541 Posts
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by GoodLife View Post
A lot of people think Sweden was a total disaster because they only compare it to Norway and Finland. They are quite comparable to several US states in size and population and did a lot better than many of them as well as several European countries. Sweden's deaths keep plumetting and they have no surge of new cases. They may have reached a herd immunity threshold and might have the last laugh. 75% of their death total is from nursing homes, everyone blew that one but without that total, their strategy seems to have worked.
Sweden treated its people as adults, and they responded accordingly.

Pen people up and, when you release them, many just go wild.

Only time will tell, but I do think Sweden took the correct approach.